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Elmo, Kansas


Chelicerata

Hexapoda
Thousands of specimens were collected by Carl Dunbar from a Permian marl in Dickinson County, Kansas. The specimens figured above are from "Insect Hill," a small cap of limestone on a prominent knob southeast of the village of Elmo, Kansas. It was the belief of Robin J. Tillyard, distinguished paleoentomologist and Director of the Cawthron Institute (New Zealand), that these fossils held the clues to unraveling the phylogeny and evolution of the insects.

Chelicerata

Hexapoda

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